Famous quotes containing the words victor hugo, victor, hugo and/or paris:
“Religion, Society, and Nature—these are the three struggles of man.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. We love to see animals fighting, not the victor raving over the vanquished.... It is the same in gambling, and the same in the search for truth.... We never seek things for themselves—what we seek is the very seeking of things.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“If Paris lived now, and preferred beauty to power and riches, it would not be called his Judgment, but his Want of Judgment.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)